Nginx redirect not working?

Question

Nginx

server {
    server_name subdomain.domain.com;
    listen 80;
    return 301 http://google.com;
}

server {
  server_name domain.com www.domain.com;
  listen 80;
  return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri;
}

why with such a config subdomain.domain.com; still redirects to https://domain.com

Answer 1

I did not look at return, rewrite works in the working config:

server {
    listen [% $site.port %];

    server_name www.[% $site.host %];

    rewrite ^/?(.*) $scheme://[% $site.host %]/$1 permanent;
}

However, it works well

server {
    listen [% $site.port %];
    server_name www.[% $site.host %];

    return 301 $scheme://[% $site.host %]$request_uri;
}